It seems to me that even in the old series, the Doctor was ALWAYS able to go EXACTLY where he wanted when the plot demanded it.

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Yeah, When he needed accuracy, there was no navigation trouble. I assumed he was doing a drive with no hands approach to travel. He'd put in a rough set of co-ordinates then let the Tardis come to a stop where ever so things could be more interesting.

The addition of the Randomiser to the Tardis controls in 'The Armageddon Factor' shows that the Doctor could navigate at that point. The First and Second Doctors never could.

The Third did manage to set course successfully to Metebelis Three. I'd suggest that when the Time Lords unlocked the secrets of the Tardis at the end of 'The Three Doctors', the Doctor used the opportunity to finally fix the navigation systems. Even if that particular information hadn't been suppressed, Three apparently had greater technical skill than his previous incarnations. Access to the UNIT laboratory, primitive though it was, might have also given him an opportunity to carry out repairs, something he may earlier have lacked.

That used to be fanfiction. I just about came when they canonized that tidbit.

The first Doctor's problem was that he couldn't be on both sides of the console like younger versions of himself managed to... Ben and Polly were trying to get home, and they got dropped off in a relative fraction of the time it took the first Doctor to find when Ian and Barbara belonged, but the others, Victoria, Jamie and Zoe were all in for the duration.

Well the Doctor claimed in Journey's End that the Tardis needed six pilots. It certainly did to tow the Earth back safely. But does it for general use? He could have used that as an excuse for his poor piloting skills!

Now, can anyone help me? I've watched TNOTD several times now, and have spotted all the Doctors except Ten. Is he in there and if so where?

Well the Doctor claimed in Journey's End that the Tardis needed six pilots. It certainly did to tow the Earth back safely. But does it for general use? He could have used that as an excuse for his poor piloting skills!

Now, can anyone help me? I've watched TNOTD several times now, and have spotted all the Doctors except Ten. Is he in there and if so where?

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If I remember correctly We see him (bottom right, back of his head) when Claire bangs on some glass, it is a clip from em.. New Earth?

Nothing that actually happened. But she saved him from whatever added peril that the "Great Intelligence" put him in.

I believe that all the saving Clara did was only undoing what the GI added at each splinter. I don't think (at least I hope SM wasn't saying that the Doctor would have failed at saving whatever he was saving without Clara's help had the GI not added something more. If I'm wrong, and Clara was at different points irrelevant to the GI and saving the Doctor in the background (like hosing down the Vasha Nerada so they didn't get to the Doctor at an earlier point in the episode/adventure) then Moffat is an ass and negates everything the Doctor did using his intelligence.

Nothing that actually happened. But she saved him from whatever added peril that the "Great Intelligence" put him in.

I believe that all the saving Clara did was only undoing what the GI added at each splinter. I don't think (at least I hope SM wasn't saying that the Doctor would have failed at saving whatever he was saving without Clara's help had the GI not added something more. If I'm wrong, and Clara was at different points irrelevant to the GI and saving the Doctor in the background (like hosing down the Vasha Nerada so they didn't get to the Doctor at an earlier point in the episode/adventure) then Moffat is an ass and negates everything the Doctor did using his intelligence.

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Yea, that's the way I saw it too. She wasn't there in the first round, she was merely striking back to correct the attacks by the Great Intelligence, that also weren't there in the first round